Thomas Seir Cummings
{{short description|American painter (1804–1894)}}
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| birth_place = Bath, Somerset, England
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| death_place = Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
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| occupation = Painter, writer
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Thomas Seir Cummings (1804–1894) was an English-American miniature painter and writer.
Biography
Thomas Seir Cummings was born at Bath, England on August 26, 1804.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z9kbAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA246 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=VI |publisher=James T. White & Company |pages=246–247 |year=1896 |access-date=2020-11-29 |via=Google Books}} He came to New York early in life and studied there with Henry Inman. He painted miniatures in water color, and many of his sitters were well-known contemporaries of the artist. In 1826 he helped to found the National Academy of Design, was its treasurer for many years and one of its early vice presidents. He also wrote an account of its history, entitled Historic Annals of the National Academy from its Foundation to 1865 (Philadelphia, 1865). His later life was spent in Connecticut, and Hackensack, N. J.
He died in Hackensack on September 24, 1894.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64228705/local-brevities/ |title=Local Brevities |newspaper=Passaic Daily Herald |page=5 |date=1894-09-27 |access-date=2020-11-29 |via=Newspapers.com}}
References
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External links
- [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/56268/rec/16 Art and the empire city: New York, 1825-1861], an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Thomas Seir Cummings (see index)
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Category:19th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:Artists from Bath, Somerset
Category:English emigrants to the United States
Category:Painters from New York City
Category:American portrait miniaturists
Category:19th-century American writers
Category:National Academy of Design people
Category:19th-century American male writers
Category:19th-century American male artists
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